Ben Maddison
Ben Maddison teaches Australian history and historical and social theory. His emphasis is on the concept of commodification, and his current research is about the history of labour commodification. His other major research interest is on the history of common land in Australia and other colonial societies. He is currently completing the research for his monograph ‘Common Land in Eastern Australia 1800-2000’. He initiated and organised a series of Colonial Commons conferences and workshops (2006 and 2008), and is currently organising publications about Colonial Commons. He is currently organising another workshop ‘Common Land and Public Policy in Australia and New Zealand’, to be held in 2009. He is also slowly undertaking the research on the life of Eric Dark for a monograph titled ‘The landscapes of Eric Dark’. Ben Maddison lives in the Blue Mountains NSW, and also writes on his lifelong passion for rock climbing and mountains.
Recent Publications
‘Labour commodification and classification: an illustrative case study of the New South Wales boilermaking trades, 1860-1920. International Review of Social History August 2008.
‘Deskilling the 1891 census in New South Wales and Tasmania’, Australian Journal of Politics and History (December 2007)
‘ “The skilful unskilled labourer”: the Decline of Artisanal Discourses of Skill in he NSW Arbitration Court, 1905-15’, Labour History No 93, November 2007, pp. 73-86.
‘ “A kind of joy bell”: common land, wage work and the 8 hours movement in 19th century New South Wales’ in J. Kimber and P. Love (eds), The Time of Their Lives: the Eight Hour Day and Working Life, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (Southwood Press, Sydney, 2007), pp. 181-195
Postgraduate Supervision
Past and current supervision topics have included social theory, Marxism, labour and trade union history, commodification history, Australian social and gender history.
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